Dana White: ‘Don’t blame us for bad judges’
Executives for the Ultimate Fighting Championship want better scoring, but they don’t see it as their responsibility. In the wake…
Executives for the Ultimate Fighting Championship want better scoring, but they don’t see it as their responsibility.
In the wake of a much debated decision in favor of Leonard Garcia over Nam Phan last weekend, UFC President Dana White agrees that mixed martial arts scoring needs improvement. But he believes it’s solely up to state athletic commissions to do something about it.
“My job isn’t to figure out the scoring, how to train refs and how to do all these other things,” White told journalists Thursday, after a press conference for the upcoming UFC 124 show in Montreal. “That’s why we’re under the athletic commissions. That’s what these guys do. Believe me, I have enough jobs already. They need to figure out how to fix it.”
“I feel like we don’t get the same respect from these athletic commissions that boxing did all these years,” he said. “This is a real sport that continues to grow, that has millions of millions of fans, creates tons of revenue for all these different states. Get in there. Figure this thing out. Get to work. Start training some referees. Start doing some judging courses.”